Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits now while the keeper wrestles with the remnants of stray evolutionary residue, some of which encourages migration as a Wisconsin winter survival move, and some that exerts a powerful signal to go to bed and stay there as in hibernation. With some experience …
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Category:Wisconsin
Kickass and Politicizing Waukesha
Photo by Memento Media on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to discourage Tucker Carlson from portraying the Waukesha Christmas Parade slaughterer as a heroic vote manipulator working on behalf of Repubs maligned by the Dems. The politicization of the unfathomable Waukesha horror is only a matter of trend time, as …
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Kickass and Deer Rifles on Stands
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is aware, along with the keeper, that on this day—the opening of the deer season, the state is virtually awash with guns–thousands of high-powered weapons designed to kill large mammals, with–in many cases, the killing design aimed specifically …
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Kickass and Deer Hunt Changes
The U.S. National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper finds it increasingly difficult to identify with the excitement and anticipation of the annual deer season that dominated so much of his life. From the days of his youth in the north country when the …
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Unschooled
Artwork by Michael DiMilo After Republican Glenn Youngkin’s surprise gubernatorial victory in Virginia last week, political analysts attributed the win—at least in part—to white suburban women voters returning to the Republican Party. While some of this movement might have been due to the absence of Donald Trump on the ballot, many experts feel that Youngkin’s …
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Kickass and National Guard Justice
1st Lt. Michael Lovas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper notes the presence of the National Guard in Kenosha in anticipation of a jury decision Monday in the case of the stupid Illinois teen who used HIS military assault weapon to kill and injure demonstrators. …
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Kickass and First Snow
\Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the first swirling snowflakes of the season were immediately politicized when the Repubs said that they—the snowflakes, represented the Dems’ start of a six-month long snow job to sell snow, ice, freezing wind and blizzards as the charms …
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Kickass Suggests the Zoo
Photo by Chris Briggs on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, suggesting to Phyllis’s son Todd and granddaughter Taylor on how they might spend Tuesday in Madison, said it was a toss-up between the Vilas Park Zoo and the Capitol where there will be a public hearing on establishing a hunting season …
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Kickass as Predator
Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, having retired as a shooting hunter, still acknowledges his predator identity and the complications that come with attempting to fit killing lesser creatures into the realm of “sport” and “fun” in a society that increasingly denies the source of hamburger. Regulatory decisions that should be made by ALL …
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Kickass and Norwegian Glibness
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, citing for authority the fact that he had a Norwegian mother, passes along the inside dope on the romantic tryst between the Capital Square statues of Hans Christian Hegg and Miss Forward. Both statues were reportedly removed …
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All Photos by Geoff Carter
Kickass and Fall Writing
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that during the keeper’s long journalistic efforts to stay out of the city room and thus avoid editors and honest labor, he came up with a number of writing schemes built around seasons—“Spring up the Mississippi,” “Around Lake Michigan in …
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